“Romance and intrigue in 1856 Yorkshire”

Autumn 1856 and young and feisty Isabelle Sedgeford runs terrified from Blakefields Mansion, leaving behind her friend Abigail who has fallen in love with a schemer and is being held prisoner for her own protection.

The two girls had expected an introduction to society, and possibly romance, but instead they walked into a hotbed of intrigue which extends far beyond the walls of the grandiose Mansion in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Izzy urgently needs to find someone she can trust. Of the gentlemen, none has yet proved his worth and integrity beyond doubt. Robert appears to be honest, but is undoubtedly devious. The Lord of the Manor and his friend are clearly hiding a secret. The owner of Stonecrest, the adjacent estate, has a blunt character and a dark stain in his past.

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Blakefields Mansion and its soon-to-be-released sequel, Stonecrest, are realistic historical romances that will draw you into their exciting pages and have you rooting for the Good and True among the many satisfying plot twists.

Do you love the works of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens? If so, Blakefields Mansion is a fresh story with a familiar feel.

You’ve got to be bats not to love Nettie!

Nettie is a young bat with no belief at all in her own abilities and a terminal fear of everything. Despite being sweet and well-meaning, she earns the enmity of the leader of the bat colony who also happens to be the resident bully – Cleo. It is Cleo who challenges her to the impossible feat of bringing back a dog.

Enter Weber, a half-starved furry giant of a dog who is chained up and only interested in food. However he is no match for Nettie once she spots his potential and starts rousing him.

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Will these two highly unlikely companions be friends? Can Nettie stir a canine mountain into action and take him to the little boy, back where she used to live, whose one and only wish is to have a dog? Will things ever go right for either of them?

This is a heart-warming story with a real heroine, enlivened by well-informed descriptions of the natural world.

Can Sara find happiness or will her past consume her?

Sara has returned to her beachside home in Melbourne from a mental institution where she was receiving treatment after an apparent suicide attempt. Day by day we follow her convalescence and her attempt to reintegrate into her old life.

Thanks to the income of her husband, David, Sara is a woman of leisure, but she has a price to pay. The marriage is loveless and David is unfaithful, yet divorce is out of the question because of a prenuptial clause which would deny her the resources to look after her small daughter Lily. Sara’s best friend Beverly hovers around the family providing distraction and a sympathetic ear, but it gradually becomes apparent that she is not all she seems.

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As Sara’s routine re-establishes itself and her confrontations with David escalate in their ferocity, her inner life of thoughts and memories little by little tell us the story of her past. Aspiring to be a professional dancer, she realized it was her mother’s ambition she was fulfilling rather than her own, while her dream to be an artist, and wife to her one true love, Marcus, slipped out of her grasp.

Gradually the present and the past converge as Sara is increasingly consumed by old passions. Finally, as her life begins to fall apart, she takes a drastic step which serves both as an end and a beginning.

Who can resist Sophia?

Sophia, irreverent, rebellious, self-seeking, with more attitude than she knows what to do with, achieves her ambition of seducing a married male teacher at her convent school. When she finds herself pregnant, suddenly her whole life changes.

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Can she break through the ring of conspiring adults? What will become of her?

What will become of Jemima?

Wild Goose is the story of Jemima, a young girl growing up at the home of her grandparents in rural East Anglia. Beneath the surface of the seemingly tranquil and beautiful world of her childhood lurk bitter recriminations regarding her mother’s tragic death, while tragedy visits her own young life when her taciturn but much loved grandfather suddenly dies.

Jemima’s widowed father is an Oxford don who tutors English Literature and envisages his daughter following in his footsteps. She is politely uninterested and yet so eager to please this powerful figure that for a while she is prepared to abandon her true passion: that of the natural world.

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Jemima’s internal conflict erupts during her school exams and her distress at flunking them leads her to attempt suicide by drowning in the sea. The young Warden of a nearby Bird Observatory comes to her rescue. Rescuing her is to become rather a habit of his …

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Compendium of the first 3 books in the popular ‘Ruling of Bess’ series:

His Word Is Law

Bess is a creature of the forest – free-spirited and happy with her life. One day, as is the custom, she is bride-captured by the local lord of the manor, the handsome and powerful Raoul. Bess must be taught civilised ways and that means the acceptance of her husband’s absolute rule and the consequences of disobedience.

Her Shaming

Bess’ disobedience has gone too far and Raoul must be seen to properly punish her or risk unrest among his subjects. Much more severe measures are called for than normal – no mere spanking will do. Raoul has grown to admire his new wife’s spirit, though, and doesn’t want to hurt her. What will win through?

Eyes Like A Hawk

Seeing it as a way of escaping her confines for a few hours, Bess takes an interest in falconry. Unfortunately, getting carried away with the occasion, she then goes against the strict instructions of her husband, lord and master. As a result, Raoul is forced to take her to task in the most severe of manners.

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Measure of Control

The prequel to the O-Bay Club. Set in the 50’s, Lily is a bored housewife who is trying hard to get the attention of her somewhat remote husband Lawrence. Eventually he resorts to spanking her and, when she takes refuge with her best friend Charlotte, the two husbands join forces. Then, along with some workmates, the men set up a club to ensure punishments are both fair and moderated. The O-Bay Club is born.

The O-Bay Club

Michael is invited to join a male-run club whose sole function is the correct training and disciplining of the membership’s female partners. Betty soon learns the consequences of pushing Michael too far – punishment by committee and in public, too!

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Curbing Her Compulsion

Beverley’s a fashion-conscious lady so, when the landlord of the pub she works at asks her to ‘smarten up a bit’ for the new posher clientele, she sees it as an opportunity to refresh her wardrobe. Unfortunately the credit card bill is too much for her husband and he decides to take her along to the next meeting of the dreaded O-Bay Club for some much needed disciplining.

An amazing tale of triumph over adversity

The author, her actor husband Conrad and their small daughter Kate leave London for a new life in South West Scotland. Although they know nothing about farming, they have bought Skeoch Farm, and they are determined to make it viable.

But nothing is easy. The farm is large and run down, and establishing by trial and error what crops and animals are best suited is the steepest of learning curves. While spirits are willing, the flesh is still used to the comforts of city living, and exhaustion, due both to physical work on the farm and arduous commuting to fulfill acting commitments in England, takes its toll.

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The beauty of the place and the humour of the situations shine through. After a second daughter has been born, one day the two children are discovered leaving home Dick-Whittington-fashion to ‘live with the fairies’ who according to their lore live in a wood at the foot of the property. Their parents realise with a jolt how much the relentless work has made them neglect other areas of their lives.

This is an honest, gritty and at times tragic account of a pioneering lifestyle in which mistakes are fully and freely acknowledged. It is also a well-constructed, entertaining and often funny story which seizes the imagination on the first page and continues to hold it until the very end.

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Bess gets her wings clipped!

Winter is setting in and Bess is finding life in the castle more trying than usual. Raoul, her husband and Lord of the Castle, is having a new peregrine falcon trained up for his use but although she clearly takes an interest in a creature which she sees as a kindred spirit, he has forbidden her to go to the mews on her own. She does, of course, and unusually for Raoul, he gives her a choice regarding the punishment for her disobedience.

As fate has a habit of doing where Bess is concerned, her choice leads on to a further and far graver misdemeanour which not only brings her into danger, but incurs Raoul’s wrath, all the greater for his having feared for her life.

The story of the O-Bay club concludes

Beverley is very interested in clothes and fashion, so when the landlord at the pub where she works asks her to dress in a more sophisticated manner to accord with the pub’s new look, she is hurt and overreacts, splashing out on expensive designer clothes.

In the past, Beverley has paid for her ‘clothes habit’ out of her wages, but when her husband Raymond catches her in a lie about what she’s been doing, he not only puts a stop to it but also takes her to the O-Bay Club. This Club, which he has just joined, affords him a place to give his wife a public spanking away from home.

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Unable to pay for her extravagant purchases, Beverly tries to steal cash from Raymond’s wall safe but he catches her in the act and once again takes her to the O-Bay Club. This time the punishment is administered by another man, who does not have the same emotional attachment and can therefore give her a particularly hard time.